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ISO approves the rejection of the vote on the relevance validity of some appeals…

So I am just back from vacation during which I unfortunately learnt about the war between Georgia and Russia. That is a complete madness and should be settled down as fast as possible otherwise I fear we will have a regional contagion. And remember, the war in Tchechenia is not …

Miscellanea before leaving on vacation

I have not been blogging for a week now but as it turns out, I have been microblogging. I do have a Twitter account but I am now using my Identi.ca account much more regularly. Of course microblogging does not replace blogging. I guess it opens a new channel for …

Microsoft’s road to Canossa

Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would “clarify” the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, and Groklaw does think the same way. As it was not …

Redefining Openness (with lawyers)

Ah, there we go! The surprise of the day really comes from -would you have guessed it?- Microsoft. Just for your record and under the auspices of Rick “Talking-in-the-wind” Jelliffe, (no offense, Rick), I hereby declare that… OOXML is still unavailable ! (drums and trumpets follow). But wait, there is …

Reading list for a rainy July day

Here’s a very interesting, down-to-earth page about the iPhone by the FSF. It’s worth remembering this kind of issues that come along with the iPhone, as much beautiful and enticing it is. Some musings on OpenSim and metaverse interoperaility. But why does OpenSim have to be developed on C# and .Net? Autonomo.us : Now that’s …

Adding Netvibes to the mix….

Not so long ago I had written about some online tools I’m using daily. I have to update my position on some aspects of what I had written earlier. I had first explained that I was using three different online feedreaders, ( Blorq, Google Reader and Rojo) as I was …

The month of the zombie standards

OOXML…. It’s been a long time I had not blogged about it. Well, there are news, and not of the mundane kind. As a starting point, always assume that despite what you are about to read everything is normal and OOXML (the ISO standard) has still not been published . …

An Open Letter to the the French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Mr. President, I am writing you on my very own behalf. I have a bone to pick with you, and the readers of my blog should know my opinion in regards to what you and your government are trying to do to the Internet in the name of the so-called …

What’s hot this summer?

I have been pretty busy these days, travelling to Brussels, London and also Bordeaux (that last one for one of my best friends’ thirtiest birthday) and as a result I haven’t had the time to blog as regularly as I wanted. So I thought I could briefly discuss what will …

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